David Counterman and I got to exchanging info and it kept us both interested by the finds we were getting. I sent him my airmiles and he just paid the tax and came to me as he was single and I was married so cheaper to have him come to us. The airmiles would not have travelled two of us to him. I miss doing this now as neither of us has ancestry accounts. Never did find a birth certificate for my dad and never was able to find much on his brothers Claude and Austin. A Yount relative took the info I had to offer but then disappeared without return info so that stung. A non relative in Germany sure helped fill in gaps prior to America……Fred
July 2010 David was here. My dad was born 1886 in Roscommon MI if rumour is true. Austin went missing in 1918 in Roswell, NM as near as I know. Claude disappeared in 1906 in The area of Meade KA. Since my dad died when I was 7 I was not able to learn a lot. My mom remarried and felt any talk about dad was a slight against her new husband. My grandpa Jacob was born Jan 13,1850 in Affalterbach, Germany my great grandfather Jakob Wiesenauer and great grandmother Christiana Shafer Wiesenauer were too. Note the different spelling back in Germany.
Thank you for the Everton's Helper tip on MyHeritage. I missed that news, I guess.
I read the Helper every issue also in the 1988-1995 time frame, submitted some queries, and don't think I ever got a response. I found the Prodigy bulletin board in 1992 and found lots of distant cousins there, and even some that helped me out with gravestone photos.
The Whitehouse family page will rate it #1
Well, Fred, if my family is gonna rate it they better go for number one 😂😉
David Counterman and I got to exchanging info and it kept us both interested by the finds we were getting. I sent him my airmiles and he just paid the tax and came to me as he was single and I was married so cheaper to have him come to us. The airmiles would not have travelled two of us to him. I miss doing this now as neither of us has ancestry accounts. Never did find a birth certificate for my dad and never was able to find much on his brothers Claude and Austin. A Yount relative took the info I had to offer but then disappeared without return info so that stung. A non relative in Germany sure helped fill in gaps prior to America……Fred
What years for David, Fred? Was that the 90’s? Cool that you could fly him out! Was your dad born in Germany?
July 2010 David was here. My dad was born 1886 in Roscommon MI if rumour is true. Austin went missing in 1918 in Roswell, NM as near as I know. Claude disappeared in 1906 in The area of Meade KA. Since my dad died when I was 7 I was not able to learn a lot. My mom remarried and felt any talk about dad was a slight against her new husband. My grandpa Jacob was born Jan 13,1850 in Affalterbach, Germany my great grandfather Jakob Wiesenauer and great grandmother Christiana Shafer Wiesenauer were too. Note the different spelling back in Germany.
Fred, you have a lot of mystery and intrigue in this one paragraph!
I remember the Helper. I even advertised in it a few times. 😂
Did you advertise genealogy services or were you submitting to the Root Cellar?
Services, looking things up in the censuses at NARA. I don’t recall any any submissions to the Roots Cellar.
Hi Nancy,
Thank you for the Everton's Helper tip on MyHeritage. I missed that news, I guess.
I read the Helper every issue also in the 1988-1995 time frame, submitted some queries, and don't think I ever got a response. I found the Prodigy bulletin board in 1992 and found lots of distant cousins there, and even some that helped me out with gravestone photos.
Hi Randy, I forgot about the Prodigy bulletin board. Do you think those old boards are archived anywhere?
I asked Google (see https://www.google.com/search?q=are+prodigy+bulletin+boards+(from+the+1990s)+archived) and it found https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/1063/bringing-prodigy-back-from-the-dead. That article is from 2014, though. There may be some archives. But how useful will 30-year old conversations be? Then there are Compuserve, AOL, Delphi and other services, all with their own proprietary interfaces. RootsWeb and the Genealogy.com bulletin boards from the latre 1990s up until about 2020 hasve even more content, most of it unsourced, but still available to read. The UK also has RootsChat still going.